Creator: Anthony Howoritz / Producer: Paul Knight

An anthology series of self contained plays with a murderous theme, the twist being that the action was followed from the point of view of the killer. The casts included the likes of Keeley Hawes, David Suchet, Gillian Kearney, Steve McFadden, Timothy West, Ian Kelsey and Kevin Whately. 

1. TEACHER / WRITER: Anthony Horowitz / Respected headmaster Edward Palmer gets caught up in the death of a young man on a council estate and then finds himself being blackmailed by someone who witnessed the crime. / With:- DAVID SUCHET as Edward Palmer / GILLIAN KEARNEY as Catrin Palmer / RICHARD RIDINGS as DCI Quarry / CHIWETAL EJIOFOR as DS McCorkindale / JAMES McAVOY as Martin Vosper / MARK LETHEREN as Jack Seddon

2. FLAME / WRITER: Stephen Leather / A fireman decides to do something about his unfaithful wife and hires a hitman. / With:- STEVE McFADDEN as Joe Waterman / SHARON MAIDEN as Sandra Waterman / KEITH ALLEN as James Napeworth / RYAN PHILLPOTT as Angus Thompson

3. MOTIVE / There's trouble for a married couple when their babysitter is murdered. / With:- REECE DINSDALE as Michael Davies / SUSANNAH HARKER as Barbara Davies / CLARE MATTHEWS as Dana Goodhew

4. MERCY / Is the death of a country doctor's wife really all it seems to be.  / With:- TIMOTHY WEST as Dr William Collins / JUDY PARFITT as Margaret Collins / JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR as Detective Bannister

5. VIGILANTE / Is Vigilante action to blame for the death of a man accused by a newspaper of being a paedophile. / With:- IAN KELSEY as Liam / TOM GOODMAN-HILL as David / ALAN STOCKS as Jack / ANDREW BORROW as Henderson / TIM HEALY as DCI Duggan

6. NEIGHBOURS / Events spiral out of control when Nigel Liddy gets himself the neighbour from Hell. / With:- KEVIN WHATELY as Nigel Liddy / JOHN THOMSON as Alan Squires / CAROLINE GOODALL as Joanne Liddy / DENISE VAN OUTEN

7. SLEEPER / Postgraduate student Deborah may be unwittingly responsible for a murder she knows nothing about. / With:- KEELEY HAWES as Deborah / ED STOPPARD as James 

SEASON TWO 8 Episodes

1. PASSION / Writer: Simon Sharkey; Director: Gerry Poulson; Producer: Paul Knight / 
Jane Saunders, a call centre supervisor, has a secret obsession with her manager. When she becomes convinced he is having an affair with a junior staff member she decides to kill her rival and frame the manager’s wife for the murder. With:-  PAULINE QUIRKE as Jane Saunders / MARK WOMACK as Stephen Croft / ANGELA RIDGEON as Michelle Croft / LUCY DAVIS as Kerry / REBECCA EGAN as Lisa / RACHEAL JOSEPH as Meg / PERRY BLANKS as Security Guard / JEREMY NICHOLAS as Mr Green

2. DISPOSAL / Writer: J C Wilsher; Director: Frank W Smith; Producer: Paul Knight / A man discovers his wife is having an affair with her sister's husband and he meticulously sets about to murder him giving the appearance that it was a random street mugging. / With:- ROB BRYDON as Barry Coates / GERALDINE SOMERVILLE as Angela Coates / STEVEN PACEY as Alex Cunningham / HELEN PEARSON as Sophie Cunningham / KATE CRUTCHLEY as Ma / KENNETH HADLEY as Pa / ALAN GRAVES as Matthew Cunnigham / ERIC GRAVES as Simon Cunnigham

3. RAGE / Writer: Anthony Horowitz / Director: David Innes Edwards / Producer: Paul Knight / Edward, a single man in his 40s living with his mother, kills a man in a moment of road rage on an isolated country road.  He attends the funeral pretending to be an old friend of the man and befriends the widow, Samantha, who leans on him for support when she discovers that her late husband was leading a double life. With:- NEIL DUDGEON as Edward Buttimore / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Rose Buttimore / MAGGIE O’NEIL as Samantha Johnstone / ROSS BOATMAN as DS Pryce

4. SWAN SONG / Writer: Anthony Horowitz / Director: Frank W Smith / Producer: Paul Knight / Tara, a night-club singer, feels stifled by her rich husband, and plans to have him murdered.  She has an affair with Mark White, an ex-con who now works as a security guard in her husbands office.  Mark agrees to kill her husband and the murder is investigated by Detective Superintendent Mike Garrett whom it turns out that Tara is REALLY having an affair with.  Together they plotted to set Mark White up to murder Tara’s husband. With:- SAMANTHA ROBSON as Tara Stevens / MICHAEL GRECO as Mark White / DANNY WEBB as Derek Stevens / JESSE BIRDSALL as Det Supt Mike Garrett

5. FLASHBACK / Writer: Anthony Horowitz, Stephen Leather / Director: Ferdinand Fairfax / Producer: Paul Knight / 
Successful barrister, Nicholas Chadwack, plots to kill Angela, his mistress, when she demands money to keep their affair secret.  He successfully frames one of his clients with the murder (by planting forensic evidence at the murder scene), whom he then "defends" in court.  The story plays out in flashbacks which are presented in reverse chronological order - so we first see the trial, then the method of framing, then the murder, then the development of the motive. With:- NIGEL HAVERS as Nicholas Chadwick / ART MALIK as Paul Asher / SUSAN GILMORE as Helen Chadwick / PATSY KENSIT as Angela Stephenson

6. MEMORIES / Writer: Stephen Leather / Director: Nick Jones / Producer: Paul Knight / Thriller. Surgeon Stuart Wisher starts to have recurring nightmares involving the murder of a child.  It emerges that the nightmares are in fact his resurfacing memories of a death he was involved in when he was a child which was covered up by his mother who gradually over time had convinced him it had been a bad dream which he eventually forgot about. With:- NEIL PEARSON as Stuart Wisher / ANNE STALLYBRASS as Mary Wisher / REBECCA LACEY as Jenny Wisher / BELLA ENAHORO as Dr Anna Redford / AMELIA LOWDELL as Young Mary Wisher / ROB SPENDLOVE as Richard Croft

7. VICTIM / Writer: James Wood / Director: Jeremy Wood / Producer: Tim Holloway / Thriller. Emily and Lucy move in as lodgers with reclusive writer Colin in an area where there have been a spate of murders of women.  Lucy is obsessed and keeps a scrapbook on the murders and begins to suspect Colin.  The twist at the end is that the murders have been carried out by Emily. With:-  NEIL STUKE as Colin Edwardson / CAMILLA POWER as Emily Stapleford / FRANCES GREY as LUCY SLATER

8. REGRETS / Writer: Simon Sharkey / Director: Gerry Poulson / Producer: Paul Knight / 
Ken Grendle's machine-parts business is failing and he blames the bank for his woes. He finds them unsympathetic and unhelpful and decides to take a suitably fitting revenge on the bank’s "fat cat" chairman. With:- DENNIS WATERMAN as Ken Grendle / TONY HOGARTH as Dave Bowring / MATTHEW MARSH as Brian Balfour / SAMANTHA BECKINSALE as Christine / RAYMOND WARING as Perry / CAROLINE LEE JOHNSON as Ms Rosser / PHIL CORNWELL as Jim Broutaby / KIM TALYFORTH as Audrey Grendle

SEASON THREE 

1. ECHOES (25 January 2003)
Writer: Anthony Horowitz / Director: Coky Giedroyc / Producer: Paul Knight

When a centuries old body is discovered in her garden by builders, Elizabeth becomes convinced that her house is haunted and starts to look 
into her family history to find out the truth of who murdered the man.

With:- TARA FITZGERALD as Elizabeth Morton / JAMES WILBY as Daniel Morton/Sir Richard Morton / MATTHEW HOPKINS as Paul Rhys / MATT 
BARDOCK as Charles Merrick / JASPER BRITTON as George Blakeney / KATE MAGOWAN as Eloise Duvall

2. Favours / Writer: J C Wilsher / Director: Frank W Smith / Producer: Paul Knight / Jamie Holt, on the run from the police, hides away in a small village and makes a new life for himself running the pub. Ten years later a face from his past arrives and blackmails him into carrying out a murder for him. With:- GARY KEMP as Jamie Holt / GAYNOR FAYE as Alyson Holt / PHIL DAVIS as Chaz Hadley / GARY MCDONALD as Jed Culshaw / CHARLOTTE AVERY as Nadine Hadley / BRUCE MCGREGOR as Wayne Dugdale 

3. STALKERS ( 16 February 2003 )
Writer: Gregory Evans / Director: Gerry Poulson / Producer: Paul Knight

Children's book author Hat Vezey is being terrorised by an obsessive stalker and decides to resort to desperate measures to stop him.

With:- NEIL MORRISSEY as Stephen Kite / NATASHA LITTLE as Hat Vezey / BARBARA FLYNN as Grace Fisher 

4. SUICIDE ( 22 February 2003 )
Writer: Simon Sharkey / Director: Sven Amstein / Producer: Paul Knight

25 years after her son commits suicide as a result of school bullying Jill Craig decides to take revenge on the bully, Scott Martin. She employs 
the former bully's services for odd-jobs and pretends to befriend him over a period of many months while all the time setting him up for a murder. 
e.g. She shows him her jewellery in order to have his fingerprints on it then plants some of it in his shed, she even secretly changes her will in 
his favour to give him a motive. She then kills herself in such a way as to make it seem as though Scott Martin had murdered her and tried to 
make it look like suicide so he could inherit her money. And with her carefully engineered forensic evidence stacked against him he receives a 
life sentence for her "murder".

With:- DIANA RIGG as Jill Craig / NICK REDING as Scott Martin / JOHN BOWE as Graham Brody / RACHEL BELL as Eleanor Bailey

 5. CONTRACT (3 April 2003)
Writer: Guy Butt / Director: Adrian Bean / Producer: Paul Knight

Three city dealers' scheme to siphon off money from their company's accounts is suspected by Simon's boss so he and his friends hire ageing 
hitman Terry Cameron to do away with him. Cameron requires payment only on completion of the job, but when the boss publicly dies of a 
heart attack the dealers decide there is no need to pay the hitman. Cameron then starts killing the dealers one-by-one as a penalty for 
non-payment. Starring Adam Faith in his final TV role completed shortly before his death; and TV Presenter Jamie Theakston in an acting role.

With:- ADAM FAITH as Terry Cameron / JAMIE THEAKSTON as Simon Talbot / RAJI JAMES as Anthony / ANDREW CLOVER as Greg / WILLIAM 
CHUBB as James Carlson / CHRISTINE ADAMS as Chloe / ALEX HASSELL as Jules 

6. LANDLORD (11 May 2003) 
Writer: Simon Sharkey / Director: David Thacker / Producer: Paul Knight

Mean and unpleasant landlord, Alan Willis, leases a room to a young student and the next day discovers her dead from carbon monoxide poisoning from his faulty boiler so he decides to move her body and make it seem like she committed suicide with the exhaust fumes from her car. But the situation spirals out of control as the bad luck piles up for Alan.

With:- NICOLAS LYNDHURST as Alan Willis / RUTH GEMMELL as Liz Willis / AL HUNTER ASHTON as Tim Jolly / GARRY COOPER as DC Slater / ROBERT CAVANAGH as DC Perry / AMBER SAINSBURY as Claire McGregor